"During the passage of the Representation of the People Act 2000, which enlarged the franchise to include remand prisoners and psychiatric inpatients (RPA 2000 ss2 and 4), Labour's Harry Barnes suggested that in seeking to "enfranchise people who are dependent on decisions made by elected representatives" (HC Hansard 15 December 1999 Col 293-4) consideration should be given to extending voting rights to all prisoners. [read post]

Wilson wrote, in explaining why crime continued to fall (even during the Great Recession, when standard liberal theory says it should rise)(emphasis added):One obvious answer is that many more people are in prison than in the past. [read post]

It completely eliminates the only clearinghouse for death-penalty case information, the status of court cases of the 397 people on Florida's death row and archival cases on the 69 people Florida has put to death since 1979. [read post]

A warning about an inherent risk – a so-called “risk warning” – serves an entirely different purpose.With inherent risks, people are warned so they can decide whether that risk outweighs the benefits that might be gained from using the product. [read post]

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